Back to the big change coming to the 580 commute, one, if you are not in a car pool you can now pay to play in the fast lane. That is just the first difference. Amy hollyfield is breaking it down for us. Amy . Yes reggie. You can see the congestion . This is the traffic heading to oakland and San Francisco. The question is would you pay to get out of that traffic and go into the express lane which is ready to go but is not quite open. Here is another view of it, some animation. The lane will be available eastbound and westbound on 580 between dublin pleasanton and livermore. The cost will vary depend on traffic. Electronic sign will show you the current cost ranging from 2 to 13. Some drives say this stretch of interstate needs help to ease the congestion but they are not sure this is a fair option. Really bad. Paying for public having a pay lane on a public road is almost criminal. Here is a key part of this. You need one of these. The old one will not work. They want to reward good car pool behavior so they have a switch here. You will slide it to show how many passengers you have. If you have passengers you are free, and you drive it for free. If you are by very sell you have to pay they will have c. H. P. Officers out looking for cheaters and they want you to think and republic now. They will open this lane later this month. Reporting live in livermore for abc7. A reminder to be careful near the ocean today after a man and a woman were swept out to sea. The woman survived but the 60yearold man did not survive. This happened at shark park beach south of the municipal pier. A unisser helped the woman get to shore but the map was unable to get out of the after being swept out by a strong rip current. A coast guard helicopter pull him from the water you responsive and three was later pronounced dead. Oneyearold child has died after being shot in the face in compton. The los angeles sheriff said girl was in a kristen inside the home when someone opened fire in the garage. The father grabbed the child and ran outside and witnesses say that they heard 1212 gunshots. The search is on for the two men seen driving away from the scene. The sheriff deupty say that the shooting appeared to be backrelated. A former Church Leader is accused of embezzling 7 million. A federal grand jury indicted the couple. They handled finances at home of Christ Church at one of the six bay area locations. His wife assisted him. The two set up a fake charity and diverted minutes to the charity. The controversial proposal that allows condoms to be distributed if San Francisco middle schools has been tabled. For now. That is according to the San Francisco examiner. Before the board was scheduled to weigh in, the district decided to delay the vote. This were no month than a dozen letters of opposition and the board decided to delay it because of the Lunar New Year and the fear that some parents may not have been able to go to the meeting. The departure of a major terminal operator could cost the port of oakland 1. 5 million because the port has to pay to redirect shipping capers to other terminals. They are asking the governing board to cover the cost with an emergency transition assistance program. This month outer harbor said they would shut down in oakland and filed for bankruptcy much the port is now looking to replace outer harbor. Looking forward the South Carolina republican primary and nevada caucus are the next two major elections and as predicted donald trump and senator Bernie Sanders took the top spots in New Hampshire. The surprise second place finisher on the g. O. P. Side, Ohio Governor john kasich. The fight for third place is between ted cruz and jeb bush, and marco rubio who admitted saturday nights debate was down fall came in dead last. Hillary clinton programmed supporters she is promised supporters he is march on. Bernie sanders and donald trump are riding the wave of big win. We going to make america so great again, maybe greater than ever before. Together we have sent a message that will evening we from wall street to washington. Governor Chris Christie is headed home to new jersey to make that decision, if he will stay in the race. Have you noticed the Energy Bill Going up . You can blame it on the drought. The drying up of the normally abundant cheap hydroelectric policy. A think tank based in oakland said this has raised the california electricity costs by combined 2 billion in the past four areas. The Financial Impact of customers is not human talking about 1. 25 more a month. If you live in oakland, more Affordable Housing could be available. The city is moving toward approving new developer fees to pay for it. Last night the city council talked about 24,000 a unit fee. Used to fund Affordable Housing and improve transportation and City Services like parks and libraries. The city council will vote later this month. Intel employees who fly between the full some location and the santa clara headquarters will have to find other transportation. Curing to an internal company memo obtained they are cutting the flights this area. The 20 minute flight includes ground schultz between the airport and the intel offices and are usually 70 percent full. A drunk passenger forces a plane to make an unscheduled landing and wait until you see how the other people on board reacted. Major backlash after kanye west rest cosby in a tweet weather and traffic on hey pal . You ready . Can you pick me up at 6 30 . Ah. boy im here im here cop too late. I was gone for five minutes ugh move it. Youre killing me. You know what, dad . Im good. dad it may be quite a while before hes ready, but our Subaru Legacy will be waiting for him. vo the longestlasting midsize sedan in its class. The twentysixteen Subaru Legacy. Its not just a sedan. Its a subaru. Good morning, ten minutes after 6 00 exactly, when we came back. A look at temperatures waking up inland east bay neighbors at 41 in him to 50 in by but and you the see that everywhere hayward is 50 and 55 in San Francisco and pacifica is 53 and napa is 52. Golden gate bridge is a light breeze from the southwest at four Miles Per Hour. Temperatures are today topping out at 811 degrees warmerthanaverage. Dancing lights from sutro tower in the mid60s at the coast. Notice the temperatures are cooling a little by by friday. We will see if the cold front brings us rain. And record high temperatures coming in the sevenday forecast next week also. Sue . A look at the bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights were turned on this morning at 5 30 precisely, and, boom now we have a 25 minute backup from golden gate field about the same, 20 minutes backup on 580. 880 is the better approach but you still have solid continue minutes to pay the toll from 880 access. Now, a look over all, we have slow traffic here at hayward and what going on we have a motorcycle accident 238, as well, toward 880, and that is blocking two lanes of traffic this. We go to the peninsula, and next week had a multivehicle accident near san antonio with an update for you in a few. Thank you. It looks like kanye has pulled another. Kanye. For somen known reason, the rapper took to twitter to stand up for bill cosby who as you know has been charged with aggravateed indecent assault. He is what he tweeted. Bill cosby innocent. 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Freshly cracked egg with ham and bacon or sausage get two breakfast croissants for four bucks. Daly city dublin, los gatos and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. It is not usual to have a couple of cocktails on a flight. But when someone has a few too many it can be a big problem for everyone on board. Listen to this. [ applause ] whoa cheer when a drunk man was booted off an Alaska Airlines flight from boston to san diego. The crew made several families to calm him down but failed so the pilot decided to land at the closest airport which was denver. The machine was arrested when they landed. Many of us are looking to see our favorite athletes compete in brazil but one star now is having second thoughts because of the zika virus. A United States soccer star holy spirt said they would skip if forced to make the choice say she wants to start a family some day and she would never take the risk of having an unhealthy child. Pregnant women are at the greatest risk but Health Authorities caution there is no evidence that zika virus could affect future pregnancies. You will notice a special kiosk at walgreens where you can dispose of old or unused Prescription Medication as part of the new white house effort to stop drug abuse and deaths. It is a heroin overdose medication that will also be available without a prescription. The program is in more than 500 stores in 39 states including in california. Now a check with what is coming up on Good Morning America at 7 00. Good morning, next on Good Morning America, we have a historic night in New Hampshire outsider candidates donald trump and Bernie Sanders winning. Donald trump joins discuss we talk to john kasich about his second place spot. See you at 7 00 a. M. A bay area billionaire is trying to splay how his company misplaced 26. 7 million. 367yearold former apple employees founded a Wireless Networking company which turned into a huge success. New he said the company has become the victim of criminal fraud involve. Ly he impersonation and fraudulent requests that related in the transfer of vast sums of money. Here is good news if you look for a job the number of Employment Opportunities in the United States is near a record high. The Labor Department said that there were 5. 6 million unfilled jobs in december and officials also say the number of machines voluntarily quitting their jobs is at a nine year high. More than three Million People quit jobs in december but the Unemployment Rate still dropped to 4. 9 percent, the lowest it has been in eight years. You have to check this out. This is either beautiful or disturbing. This is in australia, these are moths covering every inch of a town in the area of the country develop after rain pounded the drought stricken area where thousands all over the ground. Not for me. That looks straight out of a horror novel. People want the rain that is for sure. And it is in the back of our mine but we are enjoying the sunshine, and i hope you are and now, good morning, everyone, the next six hours no need toker an umbrella and you can see the haze sunshine as you look at 280 and 17 where it is 48 degrees and warm today with near record highs and filtered sun and minimal cooling through saturday as the cold front passes to the north and a long spell of dry weather spilled interest next week and so does the possibility of record high temperatures. Today in the so the bay 73 at san jose and cupertino and los gatos and 71 to 74 is the rain and on the peninsula, also 70 to 73, with mountain you have being the warm spot and the biggest drop in temperature is midtoupper 60s in downtown and south San Francisco and sausalito to bodega bay and petaluma and vallejo at 69 and everyone else in the north by at 70 to 71 degrees. Loan the east bay shore hercules and richmond upper 60s and newark and everyone else around 70 to 71 like oakland and fremont. And we will have 70s to 71 in most areas inland east bay and antioch at 72 and brentwood at 69 degrees. You will see with the cold front, it will knock the temperatures down and we will still be in the 60 and record highs begin as soon as valentines day sunday or as sue calls it Anniversary Day celebrating both an edge galement and my anniversary on valentines day three years apart to be clear. Now, we have slow traffic coming through the hayward area and we have an accident westbound four babe partly blocking the lane, 35 minutes from antioch through bay point and on into concord so that is a slow drive this morning and southbound 101 beyond the on organize expressway, and we have minor slow traffic and there is clearing to the shoulder and at one point this only it involved seven cars blocking two lane and that looks to be better news in the clearing phases and southbound 101, marinwood cleared to the offramp with slow traffic fromly 37, better news and 238 near 880 the motorcycle accident has been cleared out of lanes. Stay tuned. Look at this sighs of the super bowl are disappearing from San Francisco, i will zoom this in on my ipad the people at the top of the building in downtown San Francisco are taking down the huge super bowl 50 banner. Just yourphotoswithabc7 the second largest diamond ever found, now, has a name. This is our light, found botswana discovered in november 1100 carats but there is in price set because it is too big for a conventional scanner to determine its worth. It is not cut or polished. The largest diamond ever found was 31300 kates in south 3 3,100 carat in south africa. We have confusion over recycling and wanting from the four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth [train horn blares]. To the continent. [claps]. A new nation. Announcer why not celebrate president s day with a better nights sleep . Through president s day at sleep train get up to four years interestfree financing on tempurpedic, and save up to 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic plus sameday delivery and sleep trains love your mattress guarantee. Hurry this special financing offer ends president s day at sleep train. The abc news app on the go on your judge news that lives without live. A warning from the i. R. S. Revealing a hack on their computer systems. This attack happened last month. Officials say hackers used information stolen from other places to try to file fraudulent runs and claim tax refunds. No personal information was disclosed by the i. R. S. Computer system. The i. R. S. Will contact you if your information was used and they will protect your account from tax i. D. Theft. If you tall you may have fell squeezed on a plane. You are not alone. A tennessee congressman is trying to get you a little bit more space. Toll congressman cohen will force the f. A. A. To grow to a minimum seat size say that shrinking seats are not a matter of comfort but health and safety. Amen. Now, 7 on your side tackling a question on recycling i want decembered if my landlord is legally required to provide recycling for me in my apartment i rent . Yes. In friend landlords are required to bring recycling for the attendants. Each city makes its own rules. If the landlord is not providing it contact your citys Environmental Department and they will followup with the landlord or property manager. Record your questions on your smartphone or tablet and seem then to askfinney to social media. San francisco resident could have to pay the bill for the officers accused of sending racist text messages. President obama is heading west. What you can expect when he lands in the live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Coming you on 6 30, good morning, glad you are us with. I am natasha zouves. I am reggie aqui were welcome to wednesday were we are halfway through. Mike nicco the weather continues to be say as past couple of days. Exactly. We talk about the years go faster and faster when we have april and mays weather in february it accelerates it. We have high clouds coming in, filtering the sun and not bringing any chance of wet weather. Temperatures towards running in the 40s to nearly 50 this morning, by noon we are in the midtoupper 60s and by 4 00, we are near record highs at 66 to 70 and delightful evening in the mid60s to low 60s. Sue has an update. Any hotspots . Bay bridge, metering lights are on at 5 30, so for the last hour or so, traffic is now stacked up on 888 and better approach at 30 americans from 80s into the macarthur maze and looking at 20 minutes from 580 and 24. A couple of hotspots, as mentioned, we have an accident finally cleared to the right shoulder westbound 4 at bay point,